“An Electro-Mechanical Engineer with significant hands-on experience in numerous fabrication techniques, mechanical and electrical fabrication, rapid-prototyping, mechanical design, 3D modeling, and design for manufacturing and assembly.”

Resume

I am a passionate inventor, engineer and fabricator with a education in Electrical Engineering and significant hands-on experience in Mechanical design, fabrication, and protoyping. I was once described as “an Electrical Engineer with Mechanical Engineering DNA”. In addition to my engineering work, I have extensive experience in a large variety of fabrication techniques used within the entertainment industry.

Inventions

The BevAll™- Angle setting tool for cutting bevels with various types of blades in semi-rigid to soft material (Patent Approved)

• Hobby - #1 size Exacto Style Blades

• Big #2 Size Exacto Style Blades

• Breakoff - 18mm Snapoff Blades

• 9mm - 9mm Snapoff Blades

• Utility- Box Cutter, Razor, and Feather blades

• Strap Cutter - Beveled Strap Cutting Tool

Large Project Experience

Elephant’s Toothpaste Experiment

• Tasked with designing and testing a large scale Elephants Toothpaste experiment in an Erlenmeyer flask shaped container

• Designed container, sourced polycarbonate storm sheeting

• Built and tested 3 different 5’ versions, then scaled it up to 12’

• Designed and tested 12’, then scaled design up for 20 footer.

Wintergatan MMX - Marble Machine X Engineering Team

• Designed and tested wire funnel hinge system for catching steel marbles after they bounce onto a vibraphone

• Designed a system for pressing four strings on a bass, and allowed for free movement of every single “presser” along each string

Making Fun - Netflix

• “Cat”apults

  • One made entirely of rough cut hemlock

  • Original plan was for a torsion mechanism with calculations complete regarding correct rope torsion and safety

    • Talent used hemp rope, which provided very little tension due to not following build coordinator guidelines

  • One all steel with patterned CNC wood decoration

    • Gravity “whip” type trebuchet.

    • aircraft cable retraction mechanism

  Driveable Soccer Cleat with

  • Soccer Cleat shaped frame over electric golf cart

  • Pneumatic Boxing Glove in and out, and manual lever activated hinge system

• “Unicornicycles”

  • Scrap bicycles , one tandem, one single

    • steel, wood, fabric

• Guitar Boat

  • 25’ long floating object capable of holding two people as well as being “playable”

    • tensioned aircraft cable strings with sound beam in center for structure

    • butcher block neck

    • flex ply and plywood body, completely fiberglassed

• Giant Rock Paper Scissors

  • CNC woodcut mechanism for lowering and raising a rock, paper, or scissor through a curtain

  • Giant hands made of EPS covered in wood squares

  • Giant plasmacut scissors

  • Foam, plaster and chickenwire “rock”

• Pizza “Pie”rate ship

  • Pizza launching cannon - Bungee powered pizza cannon

  • Scrapyard car with entire pirate ship built around it, steel, wood fabrication

• “Nutcracker of Destruction”

  • Wood, Steel, Wood Splitter, Fire equiment, electric motors, belt drive12’ Tall Wooden Nutcracker with flaming eyes, chopping arms, and blender in hat

    • Wood, Steel, Wood Splitter, Fire equiment, electric motors, belt drive

Somerville Haunted Houses (2 years)

Full Time Experience

Mechanical Engineer-Electrical Specialist
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
September 2019 to Present

Hardware Engineer II
Olympus OSSA
September 2015 to September 2019

Electrical Engineer
WB Engineers|Consultants
Aug 2012 to Sept 2015

Assistant Technical Director/Shop Foreman
Union College Yulman Theater
September 2008 to June 2012

Other Experience

Build Coordinator
Making Fun (Netflix):
2022 - 9 episodes

Armor Supervisor + Prop Maker
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic | Prologue | Fan Films
2024-Present

Fabricator, Designer, Project Manager
Somerville Haunted House
2016-2017

Mechanical Designer, Engineering Consulting
Marble Machine X Engineering Team - Wintergatan
2017 to 2021

Mechanical Designer and Fabricator
Mark Rober’s World Record Elephant’s Toothpaste
January 2020-Sept 2020

Education

B.S. Electrical Engineering
Union College
2012

Volunteer Experience

Artisan’s Asylum
Prop Shop Lead
August 2015-Present

Artisan’s Asylum
Electronics Shop Lead
August 2013-August 2015

Patents

10753847: FLOW CELL FOR ANALYSIS OF FLUIDS

The BevAll™ (Patent Pending with Notice of Allowance)

References